Mr. Pat Doyle:

I can only speak for our approved housing body. We have approximately 1,000 units and we operate in Louth, Limerick and so forth. We are not empire building anyway. On many an occasion over the years we would look at a site or a property and the council would say it is already looking at it, or we might say we are looking at it and the council might say that Fold Ireland is looking at it and it is more advanced in doing that, so we would pull back.

The local authorities have their targets. They are very familiar with our targets and our pipeline. They know where we are operating and where we plan to operate. The challenge for the future is that we need to know where the local authority is operating and where its pipeline is going so we do not all accidentally waste time looking at and investigating similar developments. Time will tell on that but there is something of a challenge there now because we now have the local authorities, the LDA and ourselves. We need to make sure it is not a competition and it is not about who gets the biggest portfolio. We are growing units and we have made a significant contribution. Our members have 50,000 units across the length and breadth of the country.

The one thing it is safe to say the councils will not be going after is the specialist units for Housing First, the specialist units for disabilities, the specialist units for seniors and the specialist units for Travellers. That is where they will need our help. Even this week the Irish Council for Social Housing together with the Department co-hosted a meeting on Traveller accommodation. In my opinion what we will see in the targets for local authorities in the next year will be in the general units. Is it fair to say that Ms Donaghy?